Intrusion Detection For Your PC Case

Anonymous Coward writes "Ryan du Bois, from genbukan security (aka red0x), has created a chassis intrusion detection system for your computer box: the actual physical case. He also wrote a paper describing three separate implementations of this CIDS system: Contacts, Pressure switchs, and a PLA (programmable microchip). Included in his paper are complete designs for the first two and a promise for the last to come soon. Definitely worth a read. The paper is available in many formats including OpenOffice 1.0, HTML , TEXT and a Tarball of them all. You can also obtain the signatures as well as his Automated Security Tools Project, of which this is a member."

Comments

This is news?

[No-op]

Pretty much all standard business desktops have intrusion detection devices, as well as bios hooks to inform higher level software apps that it has been tripped. Most server cases have this as well- a whole slew of my compaq racks here have them, and they tie into our management system. Mind you, they lock as well, so I'm not as worried- they have solenoids! *THUNK*

I can't imagine someone cobbling together something that has existed forever is news...

What a bunch of Rubes!... Goldberg, that is

[L. VeGas]

All you need is tamper-evident tape.

Useless, useless, useless

[marxmarv]

This "design" is completely obvious to anyone the least bit skilled in the state of the art, and frankly doesn't add much information at all. There's ZERO reason you would need a PLA for this project when 7400 series TTL has many available multi-input OR gate functions. What's worst, none of this works anyway because all you need to do is unplug the PC or otherwise disrupt the power to the gate or PLA to break into it (the normal state is, after all, active low).

So what we have here is some fourteen year old with his own "security" organization, a metric buttload of super glue and an utter lack of clue who writes a frankly useless article so that he can pretend he's important whilst slinging around big acronyms like "PLA" and "VHDL" when the tools they represent are useless to the task at hand. In other words, a snake-oil salesman.

-jhp, smacking down dim-bulbs everywhere